Destrée, Olivier Georges, 1867-1919, Simmonds, Florence · London, Seeley and co., limited; New York, Macmillan and co. · leaf 80
temotion that takes possession of you, and troubles heart and brainas you look at his figures, is spontaneous ; it is not aroused by sur-roundings and accessories proper to the sentiment the master wishes toexpress, but from the completeness of the figure and the harmony of itsaction. By the most… … THE RENAISSANCE OF SCULPTURE IN BELGIUM 71 This quality is very striking in Grief, a study of a miners wife, takenfrom the famous group, Fire-damp. It is a woman, bending forward tolook at the dead body of her husband, killed by an explosion in the mine.Here we do not see the cause of her sorrow ;…
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